In ancestry.com's "About" section for the 1810 Census, we read the following:

Schedules exist for 17 states and District of Columbia, Georgia territory, Mississippi territory, Louisiana territory, Orleans, Michigan territory, and Illinois territory. There was, however, a district wide loss for District of Columbia, Georgia, Indiana Territory, Mississippi Territory, Louisiana Territory (MO), New Jersey and Tennessee. Partial losses included Illinois Territory, which had only two counties (Randolph is extant, St. Clair is lost.), and OH, all lost except Washington County.

This would seem to imply that the records for this county exist, but when I try to search for residents of the county on ancestry.com, I get no results. This is not the case if I search for residents of other counties, so it is not simply a matter of too many results being returned. My first question is whether these records actually do exist. If they do, where can I see them? I have reason to believe that an ancestor of mine was living in that county at that time, and I would like to confirm it if possible.

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Partial losses included Illinois Territory, which had only two
counties (Randolph is extant, St. Clair is lost.), and OH, all lost
except Washington County.

If the Washington County, Ohio schedules exist, then how can we find the schedules? Failing that, how can we find out who might be in those schedules that were not lost?

Searching the collection directly on Ancestry.com with no name, and with a location "Ohio, USA" with exact search yields no matches.

Ohio is not listed in the drop-down under "browse these records", so apparently Ancestry doesn't have the images for Ohio online either.

The FamilySearch description for the collection 1810 US Federal Census says "No schedules are known to exist for District of Columbia, Georgia, New Jersey, Ohio, and Tennessee. Index provided by Ancestry.com." and the Wiki article United States Census, 1810 (FamilySearch Historical Records) agrees: " No schedules are known to exist for District of Columbia, Georgia, New Jersey, Ohio, and Tennessee. Index provided by Ancestry.com."

The mouse-over descripton in the Ancestry Card catalog about the 1810 census says "Published on Ancestry 1/13/200; Updated 6/19/2013". They claim to have 830,631 records.